The Good Life On Pumpkin Hollow Farm

Month: April 2015

I forgot to mention one of my favorite cookbooks yesterday! “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” by Ree Drummond is filled with mouthwatering recipes that can feed a crowd or easily be halved. I highly recommend the Fig and Prosciutto Pizza. I love the step-by-step photographs and stories. I enjoy being a modern pioneer woman. We hoped …

Delicious food and inspiration, something I daily seek. I like to travel around the world to see what folks are eating. I like visit farms around the globe. I like to sit in stranger’s kitchens and see if I can experience a bit of their life by eating what they eat. Through cookbooks I can do …

I have been around aloe vera plants my entire life. I have always had one, my mother and grandmother always had one, my aunts always had one. Aloe is the staple you will find in any bustling kitchen as it brings immediate and effective healing to burns, cuts, and wounds. When the baby touched the wood stove …

The morning was quiet and spring-like. The birds sang brightly as the dawn arrived. Isabelle was pressed against the wall of the lean-to and was quiet. It was time. I made a strong tea of nettles, motherwort, red clover, and red raspberry leaves and poured it into her drinking water along with molasses. The chickens …

The ducks are two weeks old. They are growing quickly but are still adorable. They look a bit awkward with their feathers starting to come in; like some strange skin disease is starting to take over. I love how they don’t look straight up; they tilt their head and look up at me with one …

Just a few homesteader necessities! When Doug’s sister said that her beautiful crab apple tree had finally fallen over due to a storm we didn’t waste time getting down there to retrieve the wood! Wood is necessary on a homestead with wood stoves. This year we would like to not use the propane (hello heart …

A week ago we became suspicious. They had been flying here and there and buzzing in the trees fine a few weeks ago. I meant to get into the hive on the next nice day. The last really nice day may have been Easter and I didn’t do it. What made us wonder about the …

One of the very first crops of spring is asparagus. We enjoyed a few dishes of roasted asparagus and I preserved the rest for asparagus cravings in July…or December. If one can find asparagus in the stores during those months I would highly question its origin, how old it is, and the flavor of really fresh …

We have the great honor of babysitting our granddaughter, Maryjane, five days a week during the day. Many of you know our sweet Maryjane in person and many of you know her through my writings. Some of you were there when she was born, peeking through the computer screen at our newborn. She has stellar …